VMWARE Server and Windows 2003 SP2

By Pranav Sharma On January 6, 2009 · 12 Comments

Did you upgrade your virtual machine to Windows Server 2003 SP 2 and found that the network adapter no longer works? This is a common problem on VMWARE server (2.0 in my case).

To fix this, install Vmware tools on the virtual machine. You can kick-off the installation using the Vmware Server homepage on the physical host.

12 Responses to VMWARE Server and Windows 2003 SP2

Anonymous says:

March 12, 2009 at 7:49 pm

It works. Your fix is simple and makes sense. Thank you so much.
Miguel says:

March 26, 2009 at 7:34 am

Thank you very much fro your help.

Three days looking information about this problem…
Codemeit says:

April 8, 2009 at 8:38 pm

Thanks very much for the info, it solved my problem.
Jason says:

November 4, 2009 at 12:52 pm

This is the best blog in the Universe!
Douglas says:

December 18, 2009 at 1:26 pm

Thank so much…
Twich says:

February 8, 2010 at 2:08 pm

Perfect! That worked like a charm. Thanks for the info.
Anonymous says:

June 30, 2010 at 5:46 am

cool it works
Anonymous says:

November 5, 2010 at 2:21 am

Thank you, resovled my problem!
JL says:

January 26, 2011 at 10:10 am

Hi there,

was happy to come across this piece of info.
it is back in order
thanks
Burn says:

March 30, 2011 at 2:28 am

Thanks a lot!!! Really helpful
Joee says:

April 28, 2011 at 11:28 am

Thanks! Had the same problem.
Good Ol' Dave says:

August 18, 2011 at 2:11 pm

A thousand blessings and a carrot cake to whoever posted this. You just solved a problem that was driving me up the wall for a week. One addition, though- at least in my case, we don’t need to run the VMWARE Home Server webpage on the host station. The webpage is hosted via IIS so once VMWARE tools is installed you can install R2 from any machine by using IE and then connecting to HTTP:\\:

Thanks!!!